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Title: New England aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ticknor, Caroline, 1866-1937, ed
Subjects: Biography Aeronautics World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e subject. (Portrait onopposite page.) ROGER THAYER TWITCHELL Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A. Son of Dr. Edward Thayer and Elizabeth F. (Schuster) Twitchell;was born in Dorchester, Mass., Feb. 10, 1895. He was educated atMilton Academy, and at Harvard University, A.B. 1916. Hewas a member of the track and cross-country teams at college. Heserved nine months in France as an ambulance driver, in Section 4,American Ambulance Field Service, on the western front, fromSept., 1916, to June, 1917. In Dec, 1917, he enlisted in the AirService, at Boston, Mass., and trained at the U.S. Army School ofMilitary Aeronautics, at Cornell University; at Camp Dick,Dallas, Tex., and subsequently at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex.,at which station he was commissioned 2d Lieut., A.S.A., Aug. 23,1918. He was then stationed at Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton,Ohio, and later at Payne Field, West Point, Miss. In Jan., 1919,he resigned his commission and was released from service at PayneField, West Point. ( 144 )
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*JOHN S. PFAFFMANN Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.SA. Killed in airplane accident, July 22, 1918Son of George Eaton and Mabel Abigail (Shaw) Pfaffmann; wasborn at Quincy, Mass., April 27, 1894. He was educated at theQuincy High School, at Phillips Andover Academy, and at Har-vard College He was a remarkably fine tennis player, and belongedto the Harvard tennis team in 1916 and 1917, and was electedcaptain in 1917. He sailed for France in April, 1917, with the Norton-HarjesAmbulance Unit, and served on the Aisne, and about Reims dur-ing July, Aug., Sept., 1917. In Oct., 1917, he enlisted in the U.S.Air Service in Paris, and was assigned to Tours, where he remainedthrough Nov. and Dec. He continued his training at St.-Maixentfrom Jan. to May, 1918, and was transferred to Voves on June 1.He was commissioned 2d Lieut, in June, 1918. On July 22 he waskilled at Voves in an airplane accident, when returning from an alti-tude flight of one hour at 6000 feet, which would have given himhis milita

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